Title :
Study on the evaluation of target enterprise in M&A of logistics enterprise
Author :
Zhou, Yewang ; Zhou, Yefu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Transp., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
At present, social cooperation of our country logistics enterprise is inevitable trend, M&A among enterprises become important route to realize logistics industry scale and promote competitiveness. The evaluation on target enterprise is a previous key link, it is primary problem of M&A decision, play a very important role to success or failure of the whole M&A. Seeing that problem that exist in the existing literature, the paper propose to utilize gray clustering carry on clustering to target enterprise at first, then use multi-objective decision-making with entropy value to select the best candidate enterprise as final goal enterprise.
Keywords :
corporate acquisitions; decision making; decision theory; entropy; grey systems; logistics; pattern clustering; M&A decision making; competitiveness promotion; country logistics enterprise; entropy value; gray clustering; logistics industry scale; multiobjective decision-making; social cooperation; target enterprise evaluation; Companies; Decision making; Economic forecasting; Entropy; Environmental economics; Globalization; Logistics; Rain; Supply chains; Transportation; M&A; entropy weight; goal enterprise; gray clustering;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2009. ICSSSM '09. 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3661-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3662-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2009.5174954